Austria’s New Government To Discontinue Anti-Russian Sanctions

Austrian President Heinz Fischer concluded an official visit to Moscow on Wednesday, meeting with President Putin and State Duma Chairman Sergei Naryshkin.

VIENNA, December 16. /TASS/. Austria’s new government will take active steps in Europe to lift the sanctions imposed on Russia over the conflict in Ukraine and will also help to ease tensions between the West and Russia, says the future cabinet’s program for 2017-2022 available by TASS.

“Austria’s neutrality is a fundamental factor which should be taken into consideration in all international agreements. Involvement in global politics is included in national interests of a neutral state. Austria, as a historical link, should be an active venue for dialogue between the West and East and will shape the policy of d·tente between the West and Russia,” says the program titled ‘Together. For Our Austria.’

“Our aim is positive cooperation in our continent. Austria will actively stand up to ease tensions, which emerged particularly over the conflict in Ukraine, and related to it [the conflict] sanctions in the European spirit and will undertake efforts to solve the conflict in Ukraine and around it,” it said.

Hague Rules Against Ukraine

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On Wednesday, the UN’s top court based in The Hague declined Ukraine’s request to introduce provisional measures against Russia and disregarded its claims of “aggression” in Crimea. Commenting on the decision, political analyst Vyacheslav Smirnov explained to Sputnik why Kiev can’t stop itself from blaming and demonizing Russia.

The ICJ said Ukraine initiated legal proceedings against Russia on January 16 of this year when it accused Russia of funneling weapons, military equipment, people and money to war-torn eastern Ukraine through their common border.

Kiev also accused Russia of racial discrimination of minorities in the Black Sea republic of Crimea, which reunited with Russia after a March 2014 referendum. Ukrainian authorities claimed probes into alleged disappearances of Crimean Tatars were not conducted promptly and that Ukrainian-language education was restricted.

The ICJ ruled that Russia should allow Tatars to preserve their representative institutions, such as Mejlis, and ensure the availability of education in the Ukrainian language. But it found that Ukraine had not “put before it evidence which affords a sufficient basis to find it plausible” that Russia had financed terrorism in Ukraine.

Moscow welcomed the decision of the UN Court.

“It is important that the Court took a principled position and did not support Ukraine’s claims about alleged “aggression”, “occupation”, or the status of Crimea as not relevant to the subject of the proceedings,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in the statement on its website.

Commenting on the ruling, Russian political analyst, director of the Scientific and Research Institute of Political Sociology Vyacheslav Smirnov told Radio Sputnik that it was, in fact, a compromise and inconclusive.

Pro-Eastern Ukrainians recognize the Kiev Western Coup As An Act Against Ukraine’s Constitution, force Western Ukrainian Petro Poroshenko out of Crimea’s parliament building in Simferopol.

“The Court’s decision was a compromise. It underlined rights for the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar language. And that was it. So, we can say here that the demands have been partially satisfied. Or we can also say that the demands have not been satisfied in principle,” he told Sputnik.
The political analyst further suggested that Kiev won’t stop blaming and demonizing Russia.

“Ukraine has to further blame and demonize Russia. Otherwise the voters and certain politically active elements won’t support its current administration – the president and the cabinet of ministers. Hence they are doomed to blaming Russia of whatever they find appropriate until they remain in power,” he said.

In a separate comment on the issue, Dr. Dmitri Labin, a professor of international law at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations noted to Radio Sputnik that the Court is yet to review the merits of the case, however the chances are miserable that it will accept [Coup Seated] Ukraine’s claims.

“The international court is not at all obliged to determine who, what and how it is done, that’s done by completely different international entities. So it is legally impossible to demand this from the International Court of Justice. Whatever evidence anyone imagined, it is not within the competence of the International Court of Justice, “the lawyer said.

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Usurpations by one branch of government, of powers entrusted to a coequal branch, are not rendered constitutional by repetition.

The United States Supreme Court held unconstitutional hundreds of laws enacted by Congress over the course of five decades that included a legislative veto of executive actions in INS v. Chada, 462 U.S. 919 (1982).

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True Federalism.

“The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to.

Let the national government be entrusted with the defense of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations; the State governments with the civil rights, law, police, and administration of what concerns the State generally; the counties with the local concerns of the counties, and each ward direct the interests within itself.

It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the great national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the administration of every man’s farm by himself; by placing under every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best.

What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and powers into one body.”